Re:East Coast 5.8 Earthquake -- from VA but we could feel it...
by evilduck on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @02:39PM
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Not a geologist but I'm married to one. That makes me an expert geologist at parties right?
Anyways, Indonesia would be totally unrelated, it's part of the Ring of Fire, geological activity there is expected and their big one happened on Sunday. Stuff today is just aftershocks.
Colorado and Virginia might be correlated since it's uncommon (but not unexpected) for stuff east of the Rockies to rattle about but I'd lean towards it just being a coincidence since they're 12 hours (05:46:19 UTC and 17:51:03 UTC) and ~2650 km apart.
Anyways, Indonesia would be totally unrelated, it's part of the Ring of Fire, geological activity there is expected and their big one happened on Sunday. Stuff today is just aftershocks.
Colorado and Virginia might be correlated since it's uncommon (but not unexpected) for stuff east of the Rockies to rattle about but I'd lean towards it just being a coincidence since they're 12 hours (05:46:19 UTC and 17:51:03 UTC) and ~2650 km apart.